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Beat the Streak Report: Weekend, April 1-3

And we’re off to a rollicking start!

Yesterday’s three most popular choices — Derek Jeter, Martin Prado and Albert Pujols — combined for a fat 0-for-11 and killed over 35 percent of your streaks before they even got started.

Come on, Streakers. We’ll take responsibility for Prado’s shenanigans against Livan “On a Prayer” Hernandez, but the rest of you have no excuse. While reaching 57 games is going to be tough, summiting Mount One should be relatively doable.

On the bright side, we won’t see Clayton Kershaw again for another four days. Did you see the stuff that dude was working with last night? We recommend steering clear of all Giants hitters this weekend, just because they’ll be in the same building as The Claw.

Yeah, we get it — it was all a big misunderstanding. You rolled into Five Guys with four of your boys, got all those toppings on the house and then told the cashier you’re good for the bill in 56 days. She became agitated, your boys became agitated, the police became involved and now the judge is throwing around big words like “shoplifting” and “disturbing the peace.” And worst of all, he’s refusing to accept a printout of your Mark Teixeira BTS pick from yesterday with the words “plus 56 more days” scrawled on it as a substitute for bail money.

Hey guys I’m back this year too with hopes and aspirations of big bucks. Unfortunatly I had Prado yesterday so I’m still square. Going with Josh Hamilton today. Beckett has looked quite ordinary thru the spring, so here’s hoping. GL to all the returning bloggers and new ones.
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Good to see some of the bloggers back again! I had A-Rod yesterday so I am at 1, wo-hoo, haha. Anyway, I am going with Tulowitzki tonight to get me to 2. I am really hoping someone wins this year. Obviously it would be awesome if I could do it but with this kind of money being offered, it would be sweet to see them finally pay out.

@00Liber. I was talking about the last page, not the first. Though it’s up to you of course. Congrats on breaking the ice with J.Hamilton. I think some bloggers are using up their good luck charms early with Tulo — hitless but extra innings at the moment.

I’m back on the blog thanks to 00liber. Thank you buddy. I am now 2 for 2. I have my picks on my blog every day. It will be updated every day and if you want to read it be my guest. Here is the link. Let me know what you all think. I said to stay away from Tulo today as he doesn’t hit in April and sure enough he went 0-5.

Hey all, I hope everyone is off to good starts for the new year. I went hit less yesterday (Prado) but Ryan Howard got me two hits today so I am on the board in 2011, only 56 more to go. Anyway, I look forward to this new season and sharing some insight with all of you again, GL!!

Going with Starlin today. Last season I picked against pit 14 times and got hits in 12 of those games. 7 of which were cubbies. Starlin has great numbers vs lefties, only thing that worries me are his road numbers but I’ll take my chances.
Side note anyone see the soon to be NL rookie of the year, brandon belt jack a 3 run bomb last night.
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@00Liber. Stats I see show Starlin kinda bad vs. Lefties @ 218 avg vs. 412 against righties. I’ve also went back and looked at his 0-fers during Mar spring games: The 0-fers were vs. lefties. But we all know stats are a general guide & picking based off of stats along is akin to flipping a coin. For me, here’s hoping Chipper gets me back on the board; all of last year, my highest negative streak was just 2.

@Vinny1979 I guess that person would either rather have multiple streaks the potential prizes or doesn’t know the rules. BTW I meant to say that 3rd account is 0jvairo_22.
I’m taking Jose Reyes to get to 3.

I got my first miracle of the season the Mets went ahead 3-2 in the Top 9th, the Marlins tied it in the Bottom and then Jose Reyes lead off the 10th with a single (the Mets went on to win 6-3). Up to 3!

In reality you could probably pick any white sox player today but, After looking a little closer at numbers, I’m leaning towards Pierre as Masterson’s BAA vs lefties is .291 as opposed to .228 vs righties. Both Pierre amd Beckham have excellent numbers against him but ima go with Juan. Only issue is it’s supposed to be rainy all day. I’ll take my chances.
GL today.
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@00Liber. Check this site out (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/). Great stats for nearly everything. Want to know how hot someone is in May? 1st time up vs 2nd time up? Against starters vs. pen? Current year, any year, lifetime? Wow! Too much to digest at once, but may be worthwhile to diddle with.

Pitch-arounds, intentional walks and other mind-games are pretty much not a player in 1st month or so of baseball, except possibly in late innings. This timeframe is used by managers/players to test scenario-type hitting/pitching and is more or less an extension of spring training. I think if this contest is won, it will be with someone that built 90% or more of their streak before the all-star break. After the all-star break, strategy plays a huge role as does injuries.

@lav- that was a nice play by the Indians first basemen, especially to have the presence of mind to get up and throw to first. Anyway, I went with Tulo today to get me to three even though he is hitless this year. I feel he has to get his first hit sometime and it might as well be today. GL to everyone else!

Well I had Longo today but he was out so I guess I am off to tomorrow. I am still stuck at 1, so pathetic, haha. I am going with Kinsler tomorrow as he is off to a good start. For all of you waiting for a game still in play, good luck!

Only 4 days into the contest and bloggers group reduced to just 4 tied for the lead. Top2500 last page has all 4-gamers on it. Kinda interesting how things kinda get spread out a bit by first of May. But until then, a couple of heavy picks going down will thin out the bottlenecks; maybe even the days with few games like tomorrow with only 6 games being played. We’ll see. Off to contemplate tomorrow’s pick.

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